Posted on 01/14/2012 1:22:20 PM PST by bkopto
Two women will be arraigned Friday on charges stemming from the beating of a teenage girl on a MAX train.
YouTube video from the Dec. 26 attack surfaced this week, sparking outrage in the Portland area. It showed a 14-year-old girl being attacked by three other passengers on a MAX Green Line train in southeast Portland.
The cell phone video also showed others who appeared to be celebrating the attack. It didn't appear that any MAX passengers tried to intervene or stop the attack.
On Thursday, police arrested 38-year-old Selena Harris, her 18-year-old daughter Rakeshia Burns, and Burns' 16- and 13-year-old half-sisters.
The mother is being charged with hindering prosecution because officers said she hid her kids from the police and lied to keep them from getting arrested.
Her daughters are charged with assault, disorderly conduct, riot, harassment and interfering with public transportation.
Police said the YouTube video helped in the investigation -- they shared the video with the Portland Police Bureau's Youth Services Division and began to identify the suspects. Additional tips came in to investigators after the video was seen on local newscasts earlier this week.
Burns and Harris were booked into the Multnomah County Jail and will be arraigned tomorrow.
The two juvenile girls were lodged at the Donald E. Long Juvenile Detention Home.
Only an airhead would criticize a 14 yr old for a few grammatical colloquialisms. Or an idiot. You’re probably definitely the latter. lol
I didn't even need her name. I knew the demographics from the thread title alone.
In the politically correct world, we we have been expected (and conditioned somewhat) to pretend a lot of things, which we can readily observe, are just not there.
A couple weeks ago I was watching the so-called news with the wife and they showed video of a scene of some uncivil behavior on the part of shoppers at a Midwestern Nike store (the day the Air Jordans came out). I observed, in crystal clear high def, zero white people involved in the mob scene. Now, I have seen that sort of thing before but this time I decided to make a comment about it. My wife told me I was racist. I don't know if that was for saying what I saw or seeing what I saw.
Either way I am tired of giving people a pass for behaving like animals, and I'm also tired of pretending there is no correlation with certain ethnicities when it is plain as the nose on my face there is.
Now, correlation IS NOT causation as almost everyone knows, BUT STILL, there's a BIG problem here (education and upbringing IMO) and everybody wants to just pretend there isn't. I don't think it is healthy and I'm not going to play that game any more.
There are chimps at the zoo that would find this out of control. Lots of hatred there with those girls.
Good for you. Show her some of these videos on YouTube. Fast food restaurants and public transportation seems to be their favorite domains to start showing their ass. Show her that recent video of the lady walking in the gas station to pay for her gas and the guy behind her ends up stalking her on the road and beats her to death with a bat. It’s often, but not always, white people they are attacking. Recently, a group in Chicago was harassing an older black man and one knocked him out on the platform. They laughed and whooped and hollered. These people have no conscience. The probably never will because you can’t really grow a conscience at a later time. They will reproduce and things will get worse.
There are actually males out there that would put their things into those things? wow. I mean, they are most DEFINITELY guilty!
But yeah, Rakeshia did it for me too. Didn't even have to look.
It’s a bad speech pattern that many young people have the habit of using. I find myself using way too many “likes” at times—not to this extent though. I don’t think she’s an airhead, but just a typical young American girl in the 2000’s.
You're not imagining it. That's exactly what went through my mind when I watched the video. The question is, what do you do with something like that. It's not an easy thought to harbour, but there it is...
You are correct, sir.
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